Dear America:
Are you FUCKING CRAZY? How is McCain ahead in the polls?
First off, the Republican Party is not about “free-market, laissez faire, small-government, low-taxes” anymore. They just NATIONALIZED the two private, massive, home-loans companies, for shit’s sake! They are BAILING OUT badly run investment banks! They are OVERSEEING the economy in an attempt to mitigate the damage of oil policy run unchecked! That ain't market-based economics.
By contrast, Obama will actually leave Americans with 2% more after-tax income on average than McCain. (5% average tax breaks rather than 3%) Check it out!
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/
http://www.taxfoundation.org/candidates08/
Also…The Republicans are NOT about virtuous living. Sure, they want to TELL you how to live, but they:
1) support the “choice” of THEIR unmarried, abstaining…pregnant…daughters, and;
2) cheat on and dump their first wife (Carol McCain) for their rich, Arizonan second wife (Cindy) who bought them a seat in the Legislature (…defense of marriage my ass)
You want to give the job to someone because he got tortured after crashing his FIFTH taxpayer funded plane.
His torture was horrific…but that’s his ONLY qualification. He also:
1) got into Anapolis only because his daddy and granddaddy were Admirals
2) Finished 6th from last OUT OF 1000!
3) Lost FOUR American military jets BEFORE his last flight
4) Yet kept on flying because daddy was running the pacific fleet.
5) Returned from imprisonment and cheated on his wife with NUMEROUS floozies, before DUMPING her for a rich, pretty upgrade who bought him his congressional district.
Maybe…just maybe...based on his real record, rather than his pedigree…he should have been grounded BEFORE he was shot down? Maybe a BETTER PILOT in the cockpit would have completed his mission over Ho Chi Minh City and returned? Shit…how many children might he have mistakenly maimed, mutilate or destroy with misplaced ordnance that a BETTER FLYER might have spared? If we had assigned command based on merit, rather than family, we might have prevented McCain ever being tortured at all…
But now you want to put him back in the cockpit? JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Obama has never failed anyone, is self-made, is brilliant, and is a doting family man. McCain has been handed everything, has nearly been KILLED by his loss of his fifth plan, was in the BOTTOM one-half of 1% at a military college, and loves him the ladies…especially rich beauty queens. (Rawr, pageant shots of Sarah Palin! Now THAT's "vetting ")
McCain shouldn’t even be picked for a kickball team. I love you, country, but am often embarassed by my retarded neighbors' idiot parents and siblings.
Am I the only one sane in the asylum?
-T
p.s. Oh yeah...and the failure of the crowd to even politely golf-clap when Huckabee said he was proud our country had nominated a man with indifference to his race...was SHAMEFUL. All your mothers were terrible parents...
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if you'd like to feel a little better about how polls are so skewed, check out this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/09/poll-madness-mccain-takes_n_125158.html
and remember, the GOTV and the 50 state strategy is imperative. new voters are up in astronomical numbers. don't be depressed!
Dear T,
I feel compelled to take issue with a particular statement in your missive. Leaving aside the main message behind your post, and even leaving aside the smaller liberties with the facts you take (for instance, please provide actual proof that McCain only got into Annapolis because of his pedigree):
I take umbrage with the implication that if a pilot/McCain were better, he wouldn't have crashed planes/been taken prisoner/been tortured. The logical conclusion that you must draw then is that only BAD soldiers/pilots/marines/seamen die in combat because if they were GOOD, they would avoid all such unpleasantries. Maybe a better pilot would have "completed his mission over Ho Chi Minh City" as you say. OR maybe the most decorated pilot in the Navy would have been shot down and died immediately or died in prison.
The point is-- you don't know. You weren't there. If I had to guess, you weren't even alive then. Nor are you currently in Iraq or Afghanistan, right? I think it takes a fair degree of chutzpah to assert that McCain's being captured and tortured was due to his own incompetence. And you insult every member of the military, and every friend and family member of those military members, by implying such. Personally, as someone who had TWO friends KILLED in Afghanistan in late 2007, I am horrified that you would suggest that, hey, if they had been better soldiers, they'd still be alive.
A lot of otherwise reasonable, humorous individuals are letting their nastier selves come to the surface as a result of this election, and it saddens me. I hate to think that America is so divided that we can't even sit at the same kitchen table anymore--and that's the way it seems, when you suggest that anyone who might support McCain/Palin-- or anyone who might simply NOT support Obama/Biden-- is insane.
You are of course entitled to your beliefs, but please consider the impact your words may have on people. If you didn't mean to imply what I think you did, then great. Either way, however, I find you a lot funnier when you're talking about how great we "bunnies" are. Of course, given I'm not an ardent Obama fan, perhaps I'm automatically disqualified from that category...
-R
Where is your evidence that McCain "cheated on his wife with numerous floozies"? That is all hearsay and you're making yourself look like a fool by repeating it.
T,
As a person that graduated from Annapolis and worked in the Admissions department for a short time after, I feel forced to comment.
1. No one that goes to Annapolis gets in based on who their parents are. Sure, it helps, but there are many other things that go into the process.
2. You can certainly say that McCain graduated at the bottom of his class, but academics are not the only thing taken into account when computing class rank. All of those demerits that McCain got in his freshman year are factored in as well. So by graduating that low does not mean that he is dumb, which is what I assume you were inferring. I would also find it hard to say that anyone that graduated from one of the Academies is dumb.
Instead of writing on pure emotion, I hope that next time you do some more research into things that you don't know about.
-M
Well shit. I better stick and move.
Anonymous, while I think I had the "fool" look down before pissing you off, in regards to your infidelity question, please read the following:
Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller "John McCain Report: Arizona, the early years", The Arizona Republic.
Scott Helman. "Taking command - The McCain way", The Boston Globe.
And R & M...
You read way more into what I wrote than I wrote. I did not say "incompetent," or "dumb." ...and I did say "maybe." I do not blame service personnel for how missions turn out.
But I do blame avoidable command mistakes which include not fielding the right team, if available. Military action is about proper allocation of resources, and lousy allocation results in avoidable, and excess, horror.
War is horror. You can't have war without atrocity. Good people do things they can't, and should never, forgive themselves for. It destroys the souls of our best and brighest. But you can minimize the horror by making sure the right people are on the team to do the job.
My realm of experience in military politics and pilots is limited to the Army and the Gulf War. It was not an equal meritocracy for those who had families with military positions. In fact, bad acts got forgiven and washed away.
I'm not West Point, but I worked with them. They're smart and I have huge respect for them...but a lot of them also know people, and being at the bottom of a thousand, whatever the reason, ain't good.
Of the flight crew members that I know of that lost helicopters in the Gulf and survived, only ONE, to my knowledge, ever got to see combat again...and his dad's job required him to show up with a star on his collar. He was one of the more reckless CPGs in the unit - you did not want to fly ahead of him.
Leadership should be exceptional, and the survey says, but for his incarceration, John McCain isn't...but that thesis and line of argument isn't as emotionally engaging as my rant.
-T
Oh...and for anybody still reading and caring...McCain's "admitted womanizing" leading up to his divorce is also in today's NY Times in a timeline of McCain's career...
Ironically, I don't think professional competence and home ethics are inextricable...but then again, I ain't the in the average "values" demographic
-T
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/02/03/us/politics/20080203_MCCAIN_TIMELINE.html#
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